*Note: If you like Rush Limbaugh, stop reading before I piss you off. I'll be back with more potty training tomorrow.*

I've been watching some of the coverage of Israel v. Hezbollah.  Here's a sample story - note the Lebanese woman with the crying baby in the sidebar.  But yet, here's some coverage of the U.S. bombing in Iraq...and look at the photo.  Militant people in black holding up a picture of an evil-looking John Travolta impersonator.  Both stories are about bombing, but isn't the photo what we really remember?  Think of the 9/11 coverage...do you remember the stories or the pictures?

I don't know enough about the politics of Israel and Hezbollah to know what's really going on there.  I do think it's unfortunate Israel has bombed some cars containing fleeing families.  I also think it's unfortunate that my country has bombed, well, a lot lot LOT of innocent people over the past few, oh, centuries.  It all makes me want to throw up, because I am totally a dove when it comes to war. I don't like the fighting anywhere, but really, who does?  I mean, besides W., Rumsfeld and and Captain Hook?

What I do expect to see is even media coverage, especially from the photo editors.  I'm willing to bet there are crying Israeli, Iraqi and American mommies out there, too.  Don't demonize the enemy to the point we neglect to show the faces of innocent people, some of who are related to our own Iraqi-American citizens.  I don't necessarily want to see bloody stumps every time I turn on the news, but come on, medialand, don't give me another round of War brought to you by Xbox.  If we believe strongly enough in this war (I don't, but maybe "we" do, or at least our elected officials do) to engage in it, then we should be prepared to see all of its effects.  And if we're not, we should cover other countries' wars with the same detached embarrassment that we cover our own.